How to improve Confluence content management with Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence

As Confluence usage grows, space admins often struggle to manage a constantly expanding universe of content. Pages get created and abandoned. Great ideas remain undeveloped. And teams struggle to navigate it all quickly and efficiently.

If that sounds familiar, we have a Confluence content management solution to help keep your Confluence clean and optimized for productivity.

Just dig into Confluence analytics, and you’ll find the answers you’re looking for. 

From monitoring site engagement to creating page reports, learn how to manage content on Confluence like a pro with the help of analytics app, Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence by bitvoodoo. 

What’s missing from the current Confluence analytics feature?  

There’s no doubt that Confluence is a powerful enterprise content management software. Whether you’re using it to power up your organization’s intranet or a customer-facing knowledge base, Confluence is highly robust. 

Unfortunately, its weakness is that you can’t get quality insights like user behavior and content performance with native reporting capabilities. You can only access audit logs (e.g. settings changes) in Confluence Cloud. To view in-depth analytics on Confluence, you need to upgrade to Confluence Cloud Premium or Enterprise, an offering that isn’t affordable for every company. 

Although Confluence Server users can access site statistics (e.g. most active spaces), this feature is disabled by default because it triggers performance issues in large Confluence instances. 

Effective Confluence content management with Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence

A more affordable and effective solution to gathering quality content performance data for Confluence content management is through third-party Confluence analytics tools like Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence. It works with Confluence Cloud, Server, and Data Center. 

Here’s how to improve your Confluence content management experience with Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence. 

Understand your Confluence content performance

First, identify top-performing spaces and pages. Then, uncover insights from these pages to adapt to pages with very few visits. You can access this information from the Space Report on Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence. The report delivers metrics like the total number of views, likes, watches, and sources of traffic (e.g. desktop, mobile, JSM; on-premise only).  

If you notice that the top-performing space has the most views coming from mobile, you should optimize other spaces and their content for mobile viewers. For example, keep each page concise for readability and use lower-resolution images for quicker page loading. 

Many more content performance metrics can be retrieved from the new Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence’s Content & Usage Report.

All Confluence users can access Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence’s Content Report to see how a single page is faring among your readers. The app displays the view count of each Confluence page right next to the page’s breadcrumbs. You’ll be able to review the Confluence page statistics below:

If a page has a low view count, it may not appear in search results adequately. Or maybe the page title is not enticing or clear enough for your readers. Consider optimizing the page title and the information discoverability in your Confluence space.

Ensure content freshness on Confluence

No one likes to waste time poring over a vast Confluence knowledge base only to find that most information there is obsolete. So, delete or archive outdated and underperforming content from Confluence. This ensures that only the most relevant content will surface in searches. 

Use Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence’s Content & Usage Report feature to check for pages with the least views and user trends. Next, identify the content that needs updating. Maybe a page details a standard operating procedure within your organization. But in reality, it has already been replaced with a new one, which isn’t properly documented. Or maybe the content has already been covered on a different page, which explains the low engagement rate.

Archive pages with redundant or outdated information so they don’t appear in search results and interfere with daily work. When you’ve identified unnecessary information, update or remove the information. Power users can also simply delete a page. This is especially important when considering a data migration, where you want to migrate only the relevant content.

Optimize content for internal Confluence engagements

Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence is not just for your external readers. You can also use the app to determine if your content is helpful for internal support teams who are using Jira Service Management (JSM). 

From Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence’s Space or Global Report, filter by JSM Views (Viewtracker on-premise only) to discover how many of your support team members refer to your Confluence content. The more views and engagement (e.g. comments, watches, likes), the better. If an important page isn’t getting much commitment, consider improving the content. 

For example, you can use a dedicated template for different Confluence content types so team members can quickly skim through and get the necessary information. Do the same if the number of support tickets for a particular topic still increases, even after you’ve created the content. 

Create powerful Confluence content management with Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence

These are just some ways you can improve Confluence content management with insights from analytics. With Confluence analytics provided by Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence, you, too, can create and manage powerful content that can provide value to your readers and help team members do their jobs better. 

But remember that analytics is an objective form of content performance measurement. It’s the starting point for conversations with your teams to improve relevance to get them the right content at the right time and improve engagement on Confluence.  

Our website covers many exciting ways to make Confluence analytics work for you and your organization. 

If you are ready to test, we would love you to give Viewtracker – Analytics for Confluence a try!

📕 Suggested reading: Access our full feature comparison of Viewtracker vs. Confluence’s built-in Analytics.